| BEDROCK | The essence of The Flintstones? (7) |
| DINO | What was the name of the dinosaur in The Flintstones? |
| EPITOME | Large book, getting the essence of the work (7) |
| KERYGMA | Praise loudly with emphasis on the essence of the gospel |
| BYMIGHT | "[4 Across] - [1 Down] [3 Down], but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. -Zacharia 4:6 (A phrase which embodies the essence of the Jewish people, featured across the bottom two branches of Benno's m |
| TREETOPS | Word, capturing the essence of the upper reaches of forests, for the canopy-forming crowns of aspens, birches, chestnuts, Douglas firs, elms and all other arboreal woody plants (8) |
| SPINOZA | "Perfect truth is possible only with knowledge, and in knowledge the whole essence of the thing operates on the soul and is joined essentially to it." He wrote the treatise Ethics. Who is this? |
| EGOITY | Word for the essence of the self or the state of being an "I" (6) |
| POINTEDOUT | Revealed the essence of the argument by journalist is public knowledge (7,3) |
| HAIKU | It traditionally captures the essence of the moment |
| ETERNITY | Timelessness that's the essence of the Calvin Klein fragrance |
| GIST | Just misreported perhaps the essence of the story? |
| CATCHY | It's the essence of the jingle that's key on yacht at sea (6) |
| APPERTAINS | "Charm ____ to the essence of the person or thing endowed with it. It cannot be acquired" (Alfred Austin) (10) |
| RUBBLES | Barney and Betty of "The Flintstones" |
| MINSTER | The essence of theism in stern place of worship (7) |
| HANDSEL | Gift of composer capturing the essence of music (7) |
| RATAFIA | The essence of good humour at a Fianna Fail rally (7) |
| MALLARD | ... and another walk, the essence of foolhardiness (7) |
| ROMANOV | The essence of love by Italian dynasty (7) |
